In The Good Night, the character Gary (played by Martin Freeman) meets his dream girl, literally, in a dream. He is so smitten with the girl, Anna (played by Penelope Cruz), that he embarks on a quest to find out how to be aware of his dreams and control them. That is lucid dreaming. Gary finds a new viewpoint on his life as he learns the lucid dreaming techniques.

So is lucid dreaming real? Or was it invented for the movie, The Good Night? Lucid dreaming is very real. It’s not a Hollywood fiction. Thousands of people around the world have practiced it for thousands of years. You can learn to be a lucid dreamer too.

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Step one is simple. Train yourself to remember more dreams. You should be remembering details of at least one dream every night before you’re ready to induce lucid dreaming.

The best way to train yourself is to keep a dream journal by your bed where you can reach it easily, even in the middle of the night. Have a pad or notebook ready, a pencil or pen, and a light you can write by.

Whenever you wake up, try to remember the dreams you were having right before you awoke. Write down as much detail as you can remember. You’ll find that the act of writing helps you to recall more. Don’t stop writing until you can’t remember anything else about your dreams.

Don’t get discouraged if you don’t recall any dreams right away. Just by telling yourself that you will remember your dreams and you will write them down, you are bound to see improvement.

Read parts of your dream journal every day, several times a day if you can. This will help you to familiarize yourself with your own dreams, and it will also help to prime your mind for remembering more dreams.

Once you’ve reached the point where you’re remembering a dream every day, or almost every day, you’re ready to continue with step 2.

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If you are in a lucid dream, you will usually have some power over your dream - anything from being able to fly or making an object or room appear behind a door or inside a pocket, right up to being able to change into animals and create a whole world! It is like being a director of your own movie.

Though it may seem incredible if you haven’t experienced it, lucid dreams have been scientifically proven to exist. In fact, thousands of people have been dreaming lucidly for thousands of years. It’s just not a very well known phenomenon.

That’s changing, though, with the release of the movie The Good Night, where the main character, Gary, learns to be a lucid dreamer so he can spend time with a beautiful, exciting woman (played by Penelope Cruz) who appeared in his dreams.

Being with an attractive person is just one of many fascinating things you can do in a lucid dream. Here are some other reasons you might want to try it:

• Simply for fun! Flying in a lucid dream is an exhilarating feeling.
• You can transform into animals or wield superpowers.
• You can be a sports star, movie star, superspy, or anything else you want.
• Lucid dreams are generally far more intense and vivid than most non-lucid dreams.
• If you are particularly interested in dreams - either spiritually or psychologically - lucid dreaming could help you learn more.
• If you’re writing fiction or even creating a world for a computer game, lucid dreaming can help you visualise it. You could ask your characters how they feel about something or what they think will happen.
• Some people compose music in their lucid dreams.

For at lot more information about lucid dreaming, look at our recommended resources.

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